Retrograde tracker
Which planet is retrograde right now, at what degree, and when it turns direct. Station dates with times. No account.
Turns retrograde: the planet starts to appear to move backwards. Turns direct: it moves forwards again. All times are in UTC.
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 6°05′♉︎ Taurus 26°02′
- Neptune156 days♋︎ Cancer 15°26′♋︎ Cancer 12°38′
- Mars78 days♌︎ Leo 0°35′♋︎ Cancer 11°35′
- Saturn140 days♏︎ Scorpio 13°43′♏︎ Scorpio 7°00′
- Mercury23 days♓︎ Pisces 23°37′♓︎ Pisces 9°34′
- Uranus154 days♑︎ Capricorn 2°11′♐︎ Sagittarius 28°10′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 27°22′♋︎ Cancer 17°24′
- Pluto165 days♈︎ Aries 6°43′♈︎ Aries 4°38′
- Neptune156 days♋︎ Cancer 17°40′♋︎ Cancer 14°52′
- Mercury20 days♏︎ Scorpio 22°01′♏︎ Scorpio 6°04′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 10°52′♋︎ Cancer 0°47′
Retrograde motion is apparent, not actual: as Earth overtakes a planet in its faster orbit, the planet appears to move backwards against the stars for a while. This page states dates, times and degrees, and nothing else. A station date says nothing about anyone's week, and it is not pretended otherwise here.
Mercury retrograde: 27 Feb – 21 Mar; 29 Jun – 24 Jul; 24 Oct – 13 Nov
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars retrograde: 2 Dec 2071 – 18 Feb
Jupiter retrograde: 24 Sept 2071 – 20 Jan; 28 Oct – 23 Feb 2073
Saturn retrograde: 21 Feb – 9 Jul
Uranus retrograde: 5 Apr – 5 Sept
Neptune retrograde: 18 Oct 2071 – 22 Mar; 20 Oct – 25 Mar 2073
Pluto retrograde: 5 Jul – 18 Dec
One row per body. The thin line is the year's course; the thick coloured band marks the days it ran retrograde. Dates are UTC.
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